Sing Your Way Through Phonics
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Ready to Read! Music Sample Rhyme in Time (Teacher’s Voice)
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Teaching Suggestions Booklet Sample
Song: Rhyme in Time
Tune: “Worried Man Blues”
Concept: Rhyming words
Objective: Students will learn to recognize rhyming words by their sound as they occur in sentences, poetry, and songs.
*Practice this song plus nursery rhymes and other simple poems, omitting the rhyming words for students to supply. (Ex. Hickory Dickory ____; the mouse ran up the _____.)
For more details check out the “Rhyme in Time” phonics lesson plan.
Ready to Read
Mini-Chart Sample
Lyrics Sample Rhyme in Time
When I hear words that rhyme
I always tap in time.
And if you agree, just tap along with me.
So listen for the rhyming
And be quick about your timing,
Singing trumpety-ah, tra-la la loo.
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Ready to Read! Music Sample “Tongue Tangle” (Teacher’s Voice)
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Teaching Suggestions Booklet Sample
Song: Tongue Tangle
Tune: “Potatoes”
Concept: Alliteration (words that start with the same sound)
Objective: Students will recognize alliterative words by their sound as they occur in sentences, poetry, and songs.
*Have a scavenger hunt to look for objects or pictures around the room that begin with a designated letter. Example: h=house, head.
For more details check out the “Tongue Tangle” phonics lesson plan.
Ready to Read
Mini-Chart Sample
Lyrics Sample Tongue Tangle
Cathy Casey cracked a couple of cups of creamy coffee.
Terry Topper tipped a ton of tangled twisted toffee.
Words that start the same are fun to sing and say them quick,
So, better get your tongue in shape
Or it will surely stick!
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Volume 1 Music Sample Spelling Families (Teacher’s Voice)
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Teaching Suggestions Booklet Sample
Song: Spelling Families
Tune: “Billy Boy”
Concept: Short Vowel Spelling Patterns
Objective: Students will learn to recognize short vowel spelling patterns and families of rhyming words.
*Use the instrumental version of the song to practice spelling patterns for r-controlled vowels.
Examples: bar/far/jar, car/tar/star.
For more details check out the “Spelling Families” phonics lesson plan.
Volume 1
Mini-Chart Sample
Lyrics Sample Spelling Families
Verse 1
C-a-t That spells cat.
B-a-t That spells bat.
R-a-t That spells rat.
They go together.
For the spelling families
Help me spell my words with ease.
Change the first part
But keep the ending letters.
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Volume 1 Music Sample What’s That Sound? (Teacher’s Voice)
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Teaching Suggestions Booklet Sample
Song: What’s That Sound?
Tune: “Jingle Bells”
Concept: Letter/Sound Correspondence (consonants)
Objective: Students will practice vocalizing the sounds associated with the consonant letters.
*After the basic song has been learned, use the instrumental version of the song and the Mini-Chart templates to change the order in which consonants are presented. Examples: Verse 1—z, h, j. Verse 2—p, b, g. Verse 3—n, d, r. Verse 4—y, q, v. Verse 5—m, f, l. Verse 6—w, t, s.
*Sing the song as a partner song with one group singing the questions and the other singing the answers.
For more details check out the “What’s That Sound?” phonics lesson plan.
Volume 1
Mini-Chart Sample
Lyrics Sample What’s That Sound?
Verse 1
/b-b-b/ What’s that sound?
That’s the letter b.
/d-d-d/ What’s that sound?
That’s the letter d.
/f-f-f/ What’s that sound?
That’s the letter f.
Oh, what fun it is to sing
Our letter sounds this way!
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Volume 2 Music Sample Contraction Action (Teacher’s Voice)
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Teaching Suggestions Booklet Sample
Song: Contraction Action
Tune: “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
Concept: Contraction Formation
Objective: Students will learn and apply the rules for forming contractions.
*After the basic song has been learned, use the instrumental version of the song and the Mini-Chart templates to substitute other contractions. Examples: I am/I’m, you are/you’re, he is/he’s, we are/we’re, they are/they’re, it is/it’s.
*Play a Bingo game in which the caller states two words and the players cover up the squares with the contractions for those two words.
*Sing the song as a partner song with one group singing the questions and the other singing the answers.
For more details check out the “Contraction Action” phonics lesson plan.
Volume 2
Mini-Chart Sample
Lyrics Sample Contraction Action
Verse 1 & Refrain
When did not becomes a single word,
It’s didn’t, it’s didn’t.
When do not becomes a single word,
It’s don’t, it’s don’t.
Just put’em together and leave out the o.
That is where the apostrophe goes
And contraction action
Ever goes marching on
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Volume 2 Music Sample The Right Diphthong (Teacher’s Voice)
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Song: The Right Diphthong
Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”
Concept: Diphthong Spelling Patterns
Objective: Students will learn the spelling patterns and sounds associated with the diphthongs ou, ow, oi, and oy.
*After the basic song has been learned, use the instrumental version of the song and the Mini-Chart templates to substitute other examples of each diphthong. Examples: ou—cloud, couch, pound, sound. ow—bow, brow, clown, drown. oi—broil, coil, soil, foil. oy—Lloyd, soy, boys, toys.
*Sing the song as a partner song with one group singing the questions and the other speaking the answers.
For more details check out the “The Right Diphthong” phonics lesson plan.
Volume 2
Mini-Chart Sample
Lyrics Sample The Right Diphthong
Verse 1
Can you help me spell out?
What are the vowels? o-u
Can you help me spell shout?
What are the vowels? o-u
Know the right diphthong
And you won’t spell it wrong.
What letters will you choose
For the vowels? o-u
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Volume 3 Music Sample There Is No K in Christmas (Teacher’s Voice)
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Song: There Is No K in Christmas
Tune: “Comin’ Round the Mountain”
Concept: Letter/Sound Correspondence (c-h =/k/)
Objective: Students will learn to recognize and spell words in which the letter combination c-h is pronounced /k/.
*Discuss how the /k/ sound can be spelled in ways other than ch.. Examples: c in car and Atlantic, ck in quack, k in kitten and ark.
*After teaching spelling patterns in the basic song, use the instrumental version of the song and the Mini-Chart templates to substitute other words where ch is pronounced like /k/. Select words where ch is located at the beginnings, middle, and ends of words. Examples: Initial position—chaos, character, chlorine, chasm, Christy, cholesterol. Medial position—architect, mechanic, mocha, schedule, scholar, Michael. Final position—Bach, bellyache, earache, headache, heartache, Heimlich.
For more details check out “There Is No K in Christmas” phonics lesson plan.
Volume 3
Mini-Chart Sample
Lyrics Sample There Is No K in Christmas
Verse 1
Do you hear a k in Christmas?
Yes, I do!
Do you hear a k in
School and chorus too?
But there is no k in Christmas
Or in school or in chorus,
‘Cause we use c-h to spell them—
Thought you knew.
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Volume 3 Music Sample Belongings (Teacher’s Voice)
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Teaching Suggestions Booklet Sample
Song: Belongings
Tune: “Down By the Riverside”
Concept: Spelling Rules—Singular and plural possessives
Objective: Students will learn the spelling rules for singular and plural possessive nouns.
*Use the instrumental version of the song and the Mini-Chart templates to replace the belongings in the song. Examples: Replace jackets with backpacks. Replace hats with bags. Replace room with book. Replace dessert with a cake. Replace house with farm. Replace fancy car with video game.
*Use the instrumental version of the song and the Mini-Chart templates to replace the owners as well as the possessions. Examples: If the spots all belong to dogs...If the squeals all belong to pigs...If the food is shared by monkeys...If a class is shared by students...If the players all own the bat.
For more details check out the “Belongings” phonics lesson plan.
Volume 3
Mini-Chart Sample
Lyrics Sample Belongings
Verse 1
If the jackets belong to boys,
That’s s-apostrophe.
That’s what we want to see,
That s-apostrophe.
If the jackets just belong to one,
Apostrophe-s is how it’s done.
That’s how it’s always done.
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